Homeland Security signs contract for 200 Million rounds of ammo...

[lib2DaBone]

http://www.handgunsmag.com/HG_industryintel_200912/

Winchester secured a Homeland Security contract for up to 200 million rounds of .40 S&W, ammo that will be used by Immigrations, Customs and Enforcement. The load is a 135-grain hollowpoint. No ballistics are available as this load is not yet cataloged, but it will fall under the Winchester Ranger brand.

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I wonder if this is a one-year supply? 200 million rounds....

I guess I better not make any more snarky remarks to the TSA Goons...


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[StreetKnowledge]

That's a helluva lota bullets.

TWO HUNDRED MILLION ROUNDS?!

Man, how many guns has that agency got? .40 S&W is a pistol round, too, so that's a lot of pistol rounds they need, for whatever reason......

[Echo In Light]

3. The Police $tate is a BOOMING biz

[Jeffersons Ghost]

14. don't ask too many questions...

I'd hate for anyone here to learn the hard way how this ammo will be used. O8)

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Since I am gun-impaired, can you explain

what kind of gun the ammo is for?
Isn't that an awful lot of ammo for Stateside use?

[WeDidIt]

6. It's a .40 caliber Smith and Wesson

You go through a lot of ammo practicing and qualifying.

It would most likely be for this service side arm:



Here's a comparison of several different ammo types:

[aquart]

2. HOLLOWPOINT?

[Retired AF Dem]

5. I would think it is a split order

hollow points for social work and full metal jacket for practice and qualification.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

8. Social work? Good one! nt

[Cetacea]

12. +1

[OffWithTheirHeads]

9. Social work? Good one! nt

Oops sorry. comp bug

[lib2DaBone]

13. LOL... for winning hearts and minds......

[WeDidIt]

7. Absolutely necessary at that caliber

a .45 ACP would stop a man easily without a hollowpoint. In order to insure oyu put a man down with a .40 S&W, you should go to hollow point.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

10. I was under the impression that one of the reasons for hollow point

was to keep the round from going through the good citezen and possibly injuring a bystander. That's why I keep em in my 1911 anyway cause they cost a hell of a lot more than JHP.

[Thothmes]

17. Nothing to do with that. Hollow point bullets

expand on impact with flesh If the idea is to not allow through body penetration, use a frangable bullet. HP bullets mushroom on impact and cause a larger wound channel and more tissue damage. They are much more effective killing rounds than fmj ammo in the same caliber. The Geneva convention requires combatants us jacked ammunition because it does not cause quite as much damage to tissues as do hollow point rounds.

[kenny blankenship]

4. for domestic use only

.40 is useless at the Malabar Front.

Last waaazzzhhhup of the decade?

[OffWithTheirHeads]

11. Yeah but 40 is good enough to round up all of the health insurance

scofflaws and put them in the camps that some bozo is talking about upstream.

[elehhhhna]

15. they ARE gonna kill us all. uh oh.

[Goldstein1984]

16. "Homeland Security"...

It still sounds Orwellian to me.

[Sinistrous]

18. I wonder which one has my name on it.

[Echo In Light]

19. Kick